934 Quotes by Dolly Parton

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    Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I’ve written, are stories driven by characters.

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    You don’t need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.

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    If I can hold God’s attention, I can hold the world’s...

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    My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn’t have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

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    I don’t like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I’m kind of a hands-on type of person.

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    I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn’t it time someone helped the homely?

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    So here I was trying to get married to a man who hadn’t really asked me, with a boss that didn’t want me to and a town that wouldn’t let me do it when I wanted. Yet I knew in my heart it was right.

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    I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

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